Synopsis  

A suspect’s infatuation with Catherine results in her taking over a high profile case. The case is a missing woman who aspired to be a showgirl. Sara and Nick are angered since it takes the career making case away from them.

Review  

Sara shows no real emotion when the suspect says he’ll only talk to …the pretty one_ (Catherine), not to her or Brass. Sara and Nick had the original missing persons case, but since the suspect has a fascination for Catherine, Grissom gives the case to her. While Nick remains fairly calm about that decision, it pisses Sara off (it’s a career-making case, and both she and Nick are up for promotion), making her abrupt and snippy towards Catherine during much of the case. Sara and Nick discover that there may have been another victim. When Sara and Catherine are going through the victim’s effects, Sara is hesitant in her reply when Catherine asks if her father ever called her pretty, but agrees right away that her father called her ‘smart’.

Notes  

• Both Sara and Nick are up for the promotion.
• Sara is more than a little irritated when a career-making case goes to someone else.
• Nude and SART photos don’t bother Sara.
• In Nesting Dolls we learn that Sara’s mother killed her father, which gives new meaning to the final quote below.

Quotes  

Catherine: Oh, I’ve got a good feeling about this.
Sara: So does the suspect. The only reason that we’re out here today on this wild goose chase is because he wanted to hang out with you.

Sara: You know what the worst part about this whole thing is? Catherine knows I can do this case.
Nick: So can I.
Sara: I would take you and me over Catherine and Greg anytime.
Nick: (startled) She’s got Greg helping her?

Catherine: How’s it going?
Sara: (abrupt) Your case. You tell us.

Catherine: Did your father ever call you pretty?
Sara: hesitant … I guess.
Catherine: He ever tell you you were smart?
Sara: Yeah.

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Images ©CBS (2003) - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation from the episode 'After the Show'.